| 单词 | what does know? |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhat does (also would) (a person) know? a. what does (also would) (a person) know?: used as a dismissive rhetorical question, implying the person referred to lacks the capacity or necessary information to understand something fully. Also with about, of. ΚΠ 1761 London Mag. Feb. 61/2 Your savage notions are ridiculous—what do you know of a husband's feelings? 1807 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 10 Jan. 45 Highly useful and necessary indeed! And what do you know about the high usefulness and necessity of Yagers? 1824 T. C. Croker Researches S. Ireland v. 83 What do doctors know about sick people? 1846 A. Marsh Father Darcy II. v. 107 It may be the same divinity, what do I know? 1911 W. S. Johnson Glamourie vii. 106 The man was a fool of course. What would a policeman know of a high soul's craving for communion with the Quiet? 1951 D. Bevan & E. Trzcinski Stalag 17 ii. ii. 51 I'm only a corporal..what do I know? 1969 B. Harris Catching Saradove 192 You were just sitting there on Clive's lap, like a scaredy-cat baby or something—what would you know? 1999 S. Stewart Sharking iv. 60 What would you know about it, cobweb fanny? < as lemmas |
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